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The American "Rag-Doctor."

The Berliners are greatly exercised
over the person of an American whom
they contemptuously nickname ''the
rag-doctor," but whom they envy most
cordially. According to Berlin reports
this individual is neither more nor less
than an American physician to whom
the government at Washington has IN
trusted the important charge of oversee
ing the disinfection of all the rags ex-
ported from Europe CD to the United
States. His stamp alone will allow
them to be landed on American soil.
According to the same rumor, he is be-
lieved to receive the round salary of
go, 600 from his government besides a
fee Of IS pfennigs from the exporters of
every bale of rags he inspects. the daily
number of which is computed at about
400! This and the salary together
would give the ''rag-doctor" an annual
income almost equal to that of the presi-.
dent. 1t seems remarkable that thus
far little or nothing has been heard Of
anxious competitors for so snug BERTH
Paris american Register
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On ths GaIIows.

BEATRICE, Neb.. March 25.-Jack-
son Marion, the murderer of John Cam
eron, was hanged here at 11:20 this
morning. The doomed man made
speech on the scaffold, of rambling
nature, but made no statement respect
ing the crime for which he suffered
death. His crime was the murder of
John Cameron, in April, 1872, nearly
fifteen years ago. During the month
of April that year Marion and Cameron
left Grasshopper Falls, Kansas, with
a team of horses and wagon to work
on the St.Joe & Denver railroad grade.
Onthe Sd day of the same year Marion
arrived alone at Beatrice with the team
and wagon. Nothing more was ever
heard of Cameron until in the follow
ing March, when the remains of man
with bullet hole in the fore
head, which afterwards was
identified as those of Cameron
were found on the bank of the Blue
river. Ten years or more elapsed be-
fore the suspected criminal was ar
rested. The case has been in the
courts for the past five years, and three
times the prisoner has been sentenced
to hang An appeal to the governor to
commute the sentence to life imprison-
ment was the last effort of the friends
of the doomed man.
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rha Grnnr memorfal.-

MILWAUKEE, March 25.-COmmand-
erin Chief Fairchild, of the Grand
Army of the Republic, has issued a
general order in relation to the memoir
ial at Washington, D. c., in honor of
the late General U. S. Grant. Pursu-
ant to resolutions adopted at the last
encampment, Commander Fairchild
appoints a committee to be known as
the Grant Memorial Committee, con-
sisting of one member from each de-
partment, Of which committee the
Commander-in-Chief will be the chair
man. The following is the committees:
Arkansas, Thomas Boles, Fort Smith;
California, W. R. Smedberg, San Fran
cisco; Colorado, a. J. Sampson, Den
yer; Connecticut, Amos d. Allen, Nor
witch; Dakota, w. V. Lucas, Chamber
lain; Delaware, John wainwright, Will
mingtOn; Florida, Jas. A. Pine, Eustes;
Gulf, G. v. Hatch, New Orleans; Illi-
nois, j. w. Hurst, Chicago; Indiana,
ID. n. Foster. Fort Wayne; Iowa, W.R.
Campbell, Topeka; Kentucky, James C..
Meches, Covington; Maine, Seldom Con-
nor, Augusta; Massachusetts,, George
s. Evans, Cambridgeport; Maryland,
w. E. Ross, Baltimore; Michigan, OF.
Lockhead, Flint; Minnesota. John p.
Rea, Minneapolis; Missouri, A. G. Pat
terson, st. Louis; Montana, A.
I :: Sander a@ Helena HELEN om N S6.
New Hampshire, T. +. Hills, Man
chester; New Jersey, Henry NJ. Nevis,
Red Bank; New Mexico, j. j. Fitz-
gerald, Las Vegas; New York, j. NJ.
Hedges. Harvestraw; Ohio, Fl. p.
Lloyd, Cincinnati; Maine, F. H. Lamb,
Portland; Pennsylvania, Robert B.
Beatty, Philadelphia; Potomac, S. S.
Burdette, Washington; Rhode Island,
G. R. Brayton, Providence; Tennessee
and Georgia, A. H. ScoleS, Augusta;
Texas, o. L. Lyman, Sherman; Utah,
F. N. Bishop, Salt Lake City; Vermont,
Geo. w. Hooker, Battleboro; Virginia,
Edgar Allen. Richmond; Washington,
Territory, G. NJ. Holton. North Y akema;
West Virginia, w. II. Fleck, Martins
burg; Wisconsin, II. G.. Rogers, Mil
waukee. Executive Committees. S.
Burdette, Chairman; George S. Evans,
Ira II. Hedges, B. B. Beatty, John p.
Rea, A. G. Peterson, D. N. Foster, II.
NJ. Nevins, H. p. Lloyd. He also sug
gests that on the 9th day of April
next, which will be the sixty-fifth ami
versary Of the birth of General Grant,
every post of the G. A. r. shall at some
convenient hour assemble and, inviting
their fellow citizens to meet with them,
hold feast of patriotism and there
upon solicit and receive contributions
for the memorial.
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Railroad Collision

PITTsBURG, March PA railroad
accident occurred at / O'Clock this
morning near Leetoina, Ohio, on the
Pittsburg, Fl. Wayne & Chicago rail-
road. There is heavy grade at this
point and the engineer discovered the
air brake hose of the east bound ex-
gress was leaking. He stopped the
train and while examining it freight
train dashed into the rear completely
telescoping sleeper and a passenger
car next to it. Engineer William Beal
who was under the engine at the time
fixing the air brake, was horribly
crushed and died almost instantly.
The injured are:
j. c. Hazlett, in the sleeping car, ia
tally hurt, and was left at LeetOnia.
Lee Hun, a Chinaman, cut on the
head severely.
John 7. Bingley of Chicago, conduc-
tor of the Pullman car, bruised about
the head and leg, and hand crushed.
Mrs. Davis of Pittsburg, badly cut
about the body and face bruised.
z. Pedow of New Orleans, slightly
bruised.
Mrs. Louisa Edens and three-year-
old child, badly bruised.
Mrs. Gray of Minnesota. slightly in
jured.
Della Coyne of Brooklyn, cut about
the face and head.
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The RAddOOk MURDER TRIAL.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, March 2S.-The
trial Of John Arensdorf, for the muir
der of Rev. George G. Haddock, began
this morning. United States Attorney
Murphey withdrew his appearance as
one of the counsel for the prosecution
on the ground that there was not money
enough to pay the attorneys. No OBJ
lection was raised to Judge Lewis, as
had been anticipated, and the work of
empanelinR jury was begun. Many
newspaper reporters from all parts
were in attendance. The court room
was packed with friends of both sides
and many attorneys were seated with
in the railing. Defendant Arensdorf.
wife and four children occupied con-
spicuous positions near his counsel. 1t
is thought the jury will be secured some
time tomorrow and that the case will
be fully opened this week.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, March 24.-The
work of empanneling a jury in the
Haddock case was continued TO-DAY
and at l0:30 the panel was full, the
State having exhausted its preemptions
while the defense had vet four chal-
lenges unexercised. An adjonrument
was taken till O'Clock, at which time
the opening statement of counsel will
haoin
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County Thieves,

OTTAWA, Ills, March 25.-The COM
mittee appointed to investigate the &C
counts of the county officers finds p.
w. Stockstedger, ex-county clerk, short
$1,000; A. T. Barsels, ex-prObate clerk,
short 81 600; S. w. Raymond, ex-cOun-
ty treasurer, short S25, 600, and ex-
committee says the books and ac-
counts of these offices were
left in deplorable condition,
on account of an evident criminal de-
termination to rob the county by de-
facing, erasing and changing dates in
fee books and papers on file. OF the
sheriff it says: "There has been q
reckless extravaganza. total disregard
of the forms of law, and various I'M
scrupulous and ingenious schemes and
devices resorted to, whereby he might
enrich himself at the expense of the
tax payerS.''
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Choking Catarrh.

Have you awakened from disturbed
sleep with all the horrible sensations of an
assassin clutching your throat and pressing
the Hfe-breath from your frightened chest?
Have you noticed the languOr and debility
that succeed the effort to clear your throat
and head OF this catarrhal matter1 What =
depressing influence it exerts upon the mind.
clouding the memory and filling the head with
pains and strange noisesi How difhcult il Is
70 rid the nasal passages, throat and lungs of
this poisonous mucous all can testify who are
enifcted with catarrh. How difficult To pro-
tect the system against its further progress
towards the lungs, liver and kidneys, all ply
siclans VIII admit. 1t is a terrible disease, and
cries out for relief and cure.
The remarkable curative powers, when ali
other remedies utterly fail. of SAEyoRD's
RADICAL CURE, are atbested by thousands who
gratefully recommend IL to feIloH-sufferers-
No statement is made regarding Ii that cannot
be eubst6ntiated by the most respectable and
reliable references.
Each packet contains one bottle Of the Red-
iczl Cure, one box Of Catarrhal Solvent, ana
an Improved Inhaler, with treatise and direc-
tons, and is sold by all druggists for S100.
POTTER DRUG & CHRAIcAL CO., BOSTON.
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Co. publish the following for which
they state they have the best kind Of
authority. The Baltimore s. Ohio
option, now held by the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton syndicate Is for
the purchase and control Of the
Baltimore s. Ohio stock at S1.75 per
share. The syndicate paid 5000 for
the privilege Of investigating the prop
erty. This is the only payment thus
far made. Investigation of the prop
erty is now going ON and it is expected
viii be finished in a few days. The
option expires next week. Christopher
Meyer is In the syndicate as well as Ives,
Stayner and several other large capital
lists, whose names are withheld for the
present. The name of the corporation
interest which will operate the Balti-
more & Ohio road Is withheld, but it
viii not be the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton, or the Pennsylvania Railroad
nor Gould. This statement was shown
10 the Stayner & Ives syndicate, but
they made no comment on it other than
TO DENY they had an option.
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labor Dimealfy.

NEW ORLEANS, March Pa difi-
Guilty between different branches Of la
Dor employed in the handing of cot
ton, involving 10, 600 men, had the eff
feet of paralyzing work In the cotton
trade yesterday.
The difficulty dates back to October
and is the outcome of an effort then
made to reduce the charges on cotton
at this port. At that time the cotton
handlers belonged to one grand body
known as the COttonmen'e Executive
council. Different classes OF employ
ers had also been admitted to the coun-
Gil and when the effort was made by
the factors and shippers to reduce
charges, which reduction would have
fallen principally upon these en-
ployers, they used their position In
| the council to resist reductions. The
council was composed Of organ
| iZations of white and colored laborers.
The whites charged that the colored or.
| carnations were falling under the In
1 fiuence OF employers who by their OWE
votes combined with those Of the ne
groes were likely to get control Of thu
/ organization. Therefore it Is deter.
| mined by the white organizations Il
break up the council and organize an
other IN which no employer Of Iabol
should be admitted. The white organ
iZations, composing tho backbone d
i the council, withdrew In October and
organized . peW council, inviting ID.
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It is said that there are no more Curl
Gus postage-stamps of recent years than
the new issue of Madagascar. They are
st inches long by . inches wide. There
are eight in all, ranging in value from l
penny to 2 shIllings. They are issued by
England for letters mailed at the Brit
ish consulate in Antananarivo and
gummed only in the corner. The let
tiers are sent to Mauritius, where the
Madagascar stamp Is remOVH and
kept as voucher, and the Mauritius
ntamn substituted
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A Babe tea 70 Hogs.

ST. LOUIS, March ga dispatch
from Chester, Illinois, says: An old
and wealthy citizen Henry Weberling,
was arrested here Wednesday charged
with numbering an infant child of his
step daughter and his own illegal Off
spring. He pleaded not guilty, but the
testimony against him was
so strong that he was COM
mitted to Jail. Weberlinf adj
mitted frequent criminal intercourse
with the girl and birth of the child. but
swore the latter was born dead and he
buried it behind the garden. The girl
is an imbecile, almost an idiot. and is
again likely to become a mother. The
story is told that the little one was
strangled and thrown to the hogs.
Weberling is 81 and the girl p years
old
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WOald Not Confess.

ST. LOUIS, March IA special from
Dillon, Montana, says: Thomas III.
Harding was hanged here yesterday
for the murder of Ferguson. driver
Of the MelroSe stage. He protested
his innocence throughout and died with
denial on his lips. At 2:3l D. m. the
rope was cut and the body took the
fatal drop, making no struggle. The
neck was broken by the jerk and death
was painless. The body was taken
down in ten minutes. During the en-
tire preparation the man was cool,
showing no emotion. On May ., 1885,
T. S. Merchant, 3 passenger, recog-
nized Harding a. the murderer. He
was twenty-five years old and came
from Cohoes, New York
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ARaiBst LexuIAtive UnIon.

CHICAGO, March 23.-A Times spec
ial from Tronto, Ontario, says: A
noted liberal made speech in the as
sembly yesterday, denouncing the
proposition Of the leader Of the govern
ment, which, he said, tended toward a
the event of such a union Quebec
would be compe He'd to seek admission
into the American union.
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Carter NomInated by AeeIamat,on.

CHICAGO, March 23.-The Democrats
of Chicago to-day placed in nomination
the following ticket: For Mayor, Car
ter H. Harrison; for City Treasurer,
John H. McAvoy; for City Attorney;
Charles Allen; for City Clerk, Henry
Stuckart. Mayor Harrison was chosen
on the first ballot by reclamation. Mr..
Dewitt G. Creiger had been placed in
nomination, but before ballot had
been taken his name was withdrawn.
When Mr.. Harrison assembled the
platform he made q speech reviewing
his official career and declared that he
had been unjustly abused by the press.
He declared that he had reached an
age when he desired to retire from po-
ntical life and he would have to decline
the nomination. Shortly after he had
left the stage he returned, followed by
a crowd of friends and said he would
accept the nomination.
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MADISON, Wis, March 26.-In the
assembly yesterday a bill requiring
railway companies to furnish annual
passes good in Wisconsin to all mem
bers Of the legislature, elective state
officers and members of the courts of
record, was amended, prohibiting rail-
way companies from granting trip
passes on request of members of the
legislature to friends of the latter, and
then the bill passed by a vote Of forty
nine to thirtY-three.
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NEW YORK, March PA frightful
crime was committed by saloon keep
er at the corner of Jefferson and East
Broadway shortly after 10 O'Clock this
morning. The victim is a little girl
and threats to lynch the scoundrel were
made. Police reserves were sum-
moned and are trying to get at the
wretch, who barricaded himself in the
cellar of his saloon.
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A Curiosity.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. March 22.-Mrs.
Keetsinger, German lady Of this city,
gave birth recently to a male infant
which has an elephant head and In
place OF nose short trunk. The
mouth and lips protrude like those of
an elephant. The child weighs about
nine pounds and has to be fed with q
spoon. The mother visited the circus
in winter quarters here during the past
winter and was terribly frightened by
the elephant. The parents succeeded in
keeping the matter to themselves until
now, and very few have been permitted
to see the child.
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RavOrable 60 the santa Re.

NEW YORK, March A.-Develop-
ments in the Baltimore s. Ohio matter
all point to the Atchison Company as
the party most directly interested In
acquiring control Irving A. Evans,
who created a furry by buying the
Atchison stock in Boston to-day, is in
New York attending conference with
the Iyes-StayneT party, Dow, Jones &
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Aolover aauk swindlo.

DETROIT, March PA big bank
swindle has been discovered here
which appears to have been almost
national in the breadth of it's opera
tions. Some parties have had en-
graved drafts and checks of the Mar
lette Exchange Bank of Marlette,
Michigan, and they have been filled
out for various sums, ranging from
ESQ to SIS each and negotiated through
out the country and S for two or three
papers have been coming in
TO the First National Bank of
this city from all parts of the union for
collection. One which came in to-day
is fair sample. 1t was drawn for
$3.50, and was signed by John B. Mar
tin, cashier. There is no such institu-
tion as the Marlette Exchange bank of
Marlette. That village has but two
banks and they are the Bank of Mar
lette and the First National Bank of
Marlette. The extent of the fraud is
not kown, but it appears to have been
Of great magnitude.
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Raraun tha strnrnln-

NEW YORK, March 25.-Next Tues
day evening DIR. McGlynn will renew
the struggle of labor against capital,
the rights Of tenants agains landlord
ism. Many of his supporters think
this q move in the wrong direction and
ill-advised at the present time. It
shows that DR.. McGlynn has no inten-
ton Of going to Rome.
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Cook County Orooka .

CHICAGO, March 24.-The Daily
News this morning says: The grand
jury has found something under thirty
true bills against the Cook county
boodlers. Said Agent Leman on the
inside yesterday: 80 long as they are
not presented to the court the jury, of
course, has power to change its mind.
It is evident there is some delay in the
proceedings but the jury is unanimous
in its opinion. know this to be true.
The official corruption was bare-faced
enough for the jury to
make its presentments almost
at the very outset of this
investigation. Some of the mer-
chants and contractors who have been
subjected to sharp questioning before
this body Of twenty-three stanch citi-
zens, have exhibited themselves in q
most pitiable light. While these men
have confessed their guilt, it is proba-
BILE, in consideration for their services,
some OF them will escape punishment,
excepting, perhaps, the disgrace at
taching to an indictment. The author
tiles are after the arch-thieves. The
evidence has been overwhelmingly
against the boodlers of both high and
low degreee. The jury Is not through
with this interesting investigation,
and there is no estimating how many
counts will be found. The indict-
ments and arrests that followed last
week were FASTENED by the fact that
there were reasons for believing GER
tain men were preparing to skip
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An Exporr eanfanoad.

CLARENDON, Ark, March 25-Frank
Roland, an expert safe burglar, who
robbed the Southern Express company
at Brinkley, Arkansas, in December
1885, and was sentenced by the Mon
roe county, Arkansas, court, to a term
Of five years in the penitentiary. Ro-
land was captured few days after the
robbery at his home in Galesburg, Illi-
ihoiS, and by various devices has de-
feated the ends of justice until now.
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Francia Palna, WIII.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March ga special
from Detroit, Michigan, says: Judge
Cooley appeared in the Wayne circuit
court yesterday as counsel for Miss
Clotillde Palms, daughter and joint
heir with her brother, Francis F.
Palms, OF the estate of the late Francis
Palms. The latter left property val
ued at about 81 ,OOO, 600 to his two chill
dren. The will provides for trust to
be held until maturity is attained by
the children of either heir. This is
as near as the testator could come to
entailing his vast possessions and law
yers say this will not stand the test
of our laws. A provision in the will
disinherited either heir who should
contest the viii. The case is merely a
friendly discussion on the part of coun-
sci to settle what the provisions of the
will mean; but under this disguise
turks what it is expected viii prove the
greatest Will contest in the history of
the state, and is likely to give Miss
Palms more notoriety, she being known
to the public now as the lady with
whom Senator Jones of Florida was
smitten. Besides Judge Cooley there
is an eminent array Of legal talent in
the ease
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RAILWAY, n. j., March 26.-At an
early hour this morning farmer driv-
ing into the city found the dead body
of a well-dressed woman lying on one
side Of Jefferson avenue. Her throat
was cut from ear to ear and her dress
and wrap was completely soaked with
half dried blood, News of the horri-
bic discovery spread rapidly through
out the city, causing Intense excite
Inant.
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The late Commodore Vanderbilt was
one Of the strongest men we ever
knew. and yet he labored under the
delusion that clairvoyAnt whom he
had once met was able 20 tell from the
mere inspection Of lock of hair the
trouble that the owner Of the hair suf-
fered from. We repeatedly heard him
avow his belief IN the clairvoyant. and
knew him once to send = member of
congress to her for tEeatInent.-N, r.
Ledger = q
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HOW BY SIDE ACHES.

From the bench and the counter
~ from the loom and the sewing ma
EZ chine, goes up the CRY OF pain and
E3f weakness. Aching Sides ana Back
8E34 Kidney and Uterine Pains, Strains
and Weakness, Coughs, Colds and Chest Pains
and every pain and ache OF daily toll RI.
LIExKp II ONE AIEUEE BY the cCTCURA
AEI1-PA4E PLASTER. New, elegant and In
fAlHble. At druggists, e5c; I'VE for D. 100 or OF
Potter Drug ana Chemical Co.. Boston.
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EIEhty MEN EItonbos.

SYDNEY, s. W., March A.-Eighty
men were entombed by an explosion in
occurred in a tunnel mile and a half
from the mouth of the pit. Seven
bodies have been recovered. The tun-
mel is blocked by debris caused by the
RxnlOafova
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After the opera: Twelve year old
miss-The opera was very long. wasn't
it mamma? Mamma-Ycs, daughter,
and very stylish. Miss-The ballet
girls don't sing. do they mammal
Mamma-No. daughter. Miss-Why
do they have the ballet. then, mammal?
Papa-To make the opera rs broad as
it is long, daughter. Don't ask any
more questions Washington Critic.
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CURED OF SCOL DING.
An Infurlatsd Vixen ScaIds Her
Spouse.
The Latter Dies and the Former a
RavinF Maniac.
Bank SwindIers Work the Public
With Forged Drafts.
Thirty indictments Found Against
Cook County Thieves.
soaInnd har Hnahand.

CINCnSN ATT, March PA special
from Newark, Ohio, says: Jacob
Bread died last evening from the
effects Of a scalding received at the
hands Of his wife on Sunday evening,
during a quarrel. The couple had
freque ntly had trouble and on this oc-
CASTOR, becoming exasperated at some
abuse of her husband, she threw a pan
of boi ling water in his face. She Kept
eve rybody out Of the house after the
scalding, but since his death, has be-
come a rayinO maniac